Central Saint Martins

This year’s glittering students opted to celebrate rather than present us with a dark, dystopian future. Thank god – it’s the shot of adrenaline we all needed.

Off the Rails: Gay porn, ’70s disco and heat-reactive tech are the magic ingredients in this British designer’s work, who recently graduated from Central Saint Martins’ MA Fashion course, and once worked as a print designer at JW Anderson.

Picking up the L'Oréal Professionnel Young Talent Award last year, the Central Saint Martins graduate finds catharsis in his designs, merging his paint background with cut ’n sew.

Emerging designers Jimmy Howe, Aaron Esh and Horace Page are proving that oftentimes, the most subversive fashion comes out of political bleakness.